Adam Driver responded to the claims made Lena Dunham on ‘Girls’ about her behavior in her latest memoir ‘Famesick’. The 42-year-old actor, who has built one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed careers over the past decade, kept his response short and dry when asked about the allegations. Known for his work in films like ‘Marriage Story’ and the ‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy, Driver has stayed out of controversy throughout his career, and has seen his response even more so. The speech made at the press conference immediately became the most talked about moment of the day.According to Variety , Driver was at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday promoting his new film ‘Paper Tiger,’ which opened the night before to a seven-minute standing ovation, when he was asked about Dunham’s claims. “I don’t have any comment,” he said, before pausing briefly and adding, “I’m saving it all for my book.” The comment caused laughter in the room.
That’s what Lena Dunham complained about in her memoir “Famesick.”
In ‘Famesick,’ released earlier this year, Dunham, 40, made several claims about Driver’s behavior on ‘Girls,’ the hit show she created, wrote and starred in, which ran from 2012 to 2017.Dunham recalled that Driver first auditioned for the role of her boyfriend in 2011, when he was still doing small roles in theater and had yet to break into the industry. He described walking into the hearing room with “all ears and noses, crooked and pigeon-toed, walking towards the hearing chair like a reanimated corpse in a silent movie,” adding that when he tried to shake her hand, “he just grunted.”She alleged that Driver acted like “something wild, half-man, half-beast” on set, and at one point threw a chair at her while the pair were rehearsing lines in his trailer ahead of the first season. She also said that when he surprised her with a birthday cake, she “left through a back door”, and after showing the pilot episode of ‘Girls’, he got up and left, “slamming the door behind her”, and didn’t return her calls for three weeks.Among other accusations, Driver punched a hole in the wall of his trailer to get a haircut he didn’t like and behaved erratically during the show’s sex scenes. Dunham wrote that her “careful lock-up went out the window” in those scenes, adding, “Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I’d suddenly find myself in a full-on 1970s porn penetration. But after a few pampering nudges, I called it quits.” She revealed that it was created before the use of intimacy coordinators on the set of “Girls”.
About Driver’s new film ‘Paper Tiger’ at Cannes
Co-star Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, ‘Paper Tiger’ is set in 1986 and follows two brothers in trouble with the Russian mafia.Driver received Emmy nominations for “Girls” and has since received two Academy Award nominations and three Golden Globe nominations for her film work, cementing her status as one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actors.
